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Got out to do my usual (as of late) turkey tri route, then added 2 miles.  This time I ran the first .7 first then ran the 2.5, then added 2.  The hill part (.5) was 4:01.  The .5 prior that has about .25 downhill was 3:27.  

Over all felt good.  

40:19/7:45 pace.

NEW.  That is the theme for the day.  I had been saving my pennies and saving and saving.  Well.  I totally spoiled myself last night.  I needed a pair of shoes, those were in the budget, but then I realized I had enough saved to get the watch I have had my eye on.  I got the Garmin 405.  

So, this morning I got up, it took me 20 min or so to get it to work, put on/tied on my NEW shoes, straped on my NEW watch, and out the door I went.  4.08 miles, and I didn't have the turning points mapped out.  YAHOOOOOOOOO.  Its a little distracting.  I mean I'm trying to run, but looking at the stupid VP (don't go there, Virtual PARTNER), look at the pace, distance, heart rate, wondering if I have the settings right.  Then every now and then I catch sight of the newness of the shoes, wow white.  Why can't they make at least black in all the shoes?

Anyway, I have a lot of data now.  Love the watch.

32:15/7:53 pace (I won't bore you all with all the data, but wow is there data.)

Ok, day two with the fancy GPS thing.  And it occurred to me that Kelli could be right.  I am dang fast. I set the virtual partner to run at 10 min per mile pace and I smoked him.  I am so fast compared to that guy.  He was even talking smack.

Mile 3 had that dang 1/2 mile uphill section in it.  That is short for you in shape people out there, but man that knocks me down every time.  I had good pace going up, over all on that mile was my fastest (7:36) I also hit 175 on the heart monitor.  That is something I'm glad to get back with.  I used to use a HM with my Polar watch, but that didn't have a good lap feature so I stopped using it.  I think I can push myself harder.  I think I was a little low on this run.  I should probably be hitting 180, 185. 

I won't bombard you with this data all the time, I'm just experimenting with what I like to report, how it looks.

47:11/7:51 pace

This just about killed me.  I really struggled getting this run done.  Had some serious hard times.  I was telling the guy I was running with that I had some serious mind problems with going up the section from Vivan Park up South Fork to the parking lot about 3 miles up.  Just as we started up the first hill a big gust of tail wind came, and I chuckled and told Bill that it must be God telling me that I can do it. 

I fell apart here and there, really struggled.  Very hard 18 miles.  The kind of hard that makes me question why I think I could go another 8.2.

2:45:08/9:11 pace

Details:

1    0:08:10
2    0:08:32
3    0:08:36
4    0:08:37
5    0:08:43
6    0:08:48
7    0:09:24
8    0:09:20
9    0:11:32
10    0:08:46
11    0:08:28
12    0:08:13
13    0:08:51
14    0:09:55
15    0:09:41
16    0:09:27
17    0:10:38
18    0:09:20